Required. The resource name of the dataScan: projects/{project}/locations/{locationId}/dataScans/{dataScanId} where project refers to a projectId or project_number and locationId refers to a Google Cloud region.
Authorization requires the following IAM permission on the specified resource name:
dataplex.datascans.delete
Query parameters
Parameters
force
boolean
Optional. If set to true, any child resources of this data scan will also be deleted. (Otherwise, the request will only work if the data scan has no child resources.)
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance of Operation.
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